Explicating and Clouding
(p.pr.&vb.n.) of Explicate.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
noun
- The process whereby water particles become visible in the sky.
- synonyms: clouding up
verb
- Make overcast or cloudy.
- usage: "Fall weather often overcasts our beaches"
- Make less visible or unclear.
- usage: "The stars are obscured by the clouds"; "the big elm tree obscures our view of the valley"
- Billow up in the form of a cloud.
- usage: "The smoke clouded above the houses"
- synonyms: cloud
- Make gloomy or depressed.
- usage: "Their faces were clouded with sadness"
- synonyms: cloud
- Place under suspicion or cast doubt upon.
- usage: "sully someone's reputation"
- Make less clear.
- usage: "the stroke clouded memories of her youth"
- synonyms: cloud
- Colour with streaks or blotches of different shades.
- Make milky or dull.
- usage: "The chemical clouded the liquid to which it was added"
- synonyms: cloud
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